Use XIA Configuration to compare the configuration of Windows servers in your environment. This feature can also be used to compare the current setup of a server to previous configurations.

Compare two Windows servers - Demonstration Video

The following video demonstrates how to use XIA Configuration to compare two versions of the same server and two different servers:

To see an overview video, visit the XIA Configuration product page. To see all the tutorials, visit our tutorials page.

Compare server configurations

In this example, the current configuration of a server is compared to a previous version to see what has changed.

To demonstrate this, firstly, the World Wide Web Publishing service is disabled in the services management console:

Then an ODBC data source server name is changed:

Once the server has been scanned again by the XIA Configuration Client, it is compared with a previous version:

The results of the comparison are displayed in the XIA Configuration Server user interface. The changes made to the server can be seen in the differences detected:

Export to PDF

The results of the comparison can be exported to PDF. Click the image below to see an example.

  Open Sample Report

Export to XML

The results can also be exported to XML and viewed and analysed in Microsoft Excel: